Rhetoric
Linguistic Devices
Twenty-nine rhetorical-grammatical devices the Qurʾān deploys — iltifāt (pronoun shift), jinās (paronomasia), ṭibāq (antithesis), and the rest of the classical balāgha inventory grounded in concrete ayāt. Scope note — 29 entries is the classical balāgha inventory (al-Suyūṭī's al-Itqān-style catalogue), not exhaustive. For full theoretical framing of any single device, classical balāgha works (al-Jurjānī, al-Zamakhsharī) go deeper than this index does.
— devices
Rhetoric
Formulas
Thirty recurring Qurʾānic formulas with their occurrence counts and citations — basmala, ḥamdala, taʿawwudh, the disjointed letters, and the dialectical refrains that bind the corpus together.
— formulas
Rhetoric
Oaths
Twenty-five oath openings (aqsām) — the cosmic, temporal, and scriptural witnesses by which surahs announce themselves. The Qurʾān's pre-argumentative move, before any proposition is advanced.
Category
— oaths
Rhetoric
Qul-directives
Twenty-two functional categories of the Prophet's qul (Say…) speech-acts — declare, refuse, ask, affirm, deny, narrate. Each row groups the Qurʾān's prescribed first-person responses to a recurring antagonist move.
— directives
Rhetoric
Surah Pairs
Forty paired surahs — frames, structural mirrors, and thematic counterparts. Distinct from the Atlas's narrative pairs (which are figure-pairs); these are surah-level couplings showing the corpus's macro-architecture.
Type
— pairs
Rhetoric
Intertextual Templates
Forty repeating narrative-templates — the same story told across multiple surahs with different theological emphasis at each retelling. Click any template for its instances and what each foregrounds.
— templates
Rhetoric
Numerics
Twenty-five significant numbers in the corpus — durations, multitudes, and ages. The Qurʾān's quantified theological vocabulary. Scope note — 25 entries focus on numbers that carry theological weight (durations, multitudes, ages). Ordinary numerical statements (e.g. days of creation, prayer counts) are intentionally excluded — those belong in the Atlas as part of verse-level data.
— numerics